Do you have daily fear and anxiety?

Maybe it's a fear of:

    -a panic attack
    -never being free of general anxiety
    -a bodily sensation that worries you
    -a fear of losing control to anxiety

Whatever your particular fear is, I want to share some tips and
techniques with you over the coming days that will not only help
you end these fears but also reduce your general anxiety level
dramatically.

After many years of coaching people to be anxiety free, I have
noticed that those who experience panic attacks or general anxiety
almost always deal with the frequent occurrence of anxious thoughts.

Anxiety has a sneaky way of seeding doubt regardless of whether the
fear is rational or irrational.

So what can be done for people who suffer from repetitive anxious
thoughts?

To begin, lets look at how an anxious thought is powered and then I
will demonstrate how to quickly eliminate the intensity of the
thought.

Say for example you are going about your daily business when an
anxious thought enters your mind.

Whatever the nature of the thought, the pattern that follows is
usually quite predictable.

The anxious thought flashes briefly in your awareness and as it
does so you immediately react with fear as you contemplate the
thought. The fearful reaction you have to the thought then sends a
shock-wave through your nervous system. You feel the result of that
fear most intensely in your stomach (due to the amount of nerve
endings located there).

Because of the intense bodily reaction to the thought you then get
sucked into examining the anxious thought over and over.

The continuous fearful reaction you have to the thought, increases
the intensity of the experience. The more you react, the stronger
the thought rebounds again in your awareness creating more anxious
shock-waves throughout your body. This is the typical cycle of
anxious thoughts.

For some it feels like the anxious thoughts are hijacking their
peace of mind.

Because of the reaction you are having, you may continue to spend
the rest of your day thinking about the anxious thoughts you
experienced.

“Why am I thinking these thoughts?” “Why can't I shake off this
eerie feeling?”

The harder you try not to think about it, the more upset you
become. It is like telling someone

‘Whatever happens do not think of a pink elephant'.

Naturally enough it's all they can think about. That's the way our
brains our wired.

So how can you eliminate these unwanted anxious thoughts?

To begin with:

    -when you start to experience anxious thoughts, it is very
important not to force the thoughts away.

Let the thoughts in. The more comfortable you can become with them,
the better. These thoughts will never go away fully but what you
can learn is to change your reaction to them.

By changing your reaction to the anxious thoughts you become free
of them.

Once you establish a new way of reacting to the thoughts it does
not matter if you have them or not. Your reaction is what defines
the whole experience (and that applies to almost everything).

Everybody experiences fleeting thoughts that many would consider
scary or crazy. The difference between most people and somebody who
gets caught up in them, is that the average person sees them for
exactly what they are, fleeting anxious thoughts, and casually
ignores them.

The anxious person is at a disadvantage as they already have a
certain level of anxiety in their system. The thoughts easily spark
feelings of further anxiety which builds into a cycle of fear. You
break the cycle by changing how you react to the fearful thought.

Here is an example of how to approach this:

You are enjoying the way your day is going but then all of sudden a
fearful thought comes to mind.

Before you would react with anxiety to the idea and then try to
force that thought out of your mind.

This time, however, say:

“That's a fear of X. I could worry and even obsess over that but
this time I'm going to do something different. I'm not going to
react to it. I'm also not going to try and stop it either. I'm just
going to label the thought and not react.”

Then the thought comes again with more intensity and possibly with
new ‘scary' angles you never considered. When this happens you do
exactly the same. As if you were observing a cloud passing
overhead, you simply

    -Observe it,
    -Label it (fear of whatever), then
    -Watch it as it passes by with no judgment.

then

    -Move your attention on to what you were doing.

Observe, Label, Watch, Move on.

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